Category Archives: College

How a casino tycoon is trying to combat an exploding pro-Palestinian movement on campuses

Different groups have different interests. I see nothing diabolical in being pro or anti-Israel, pro or anti Islam, pro or anti-Jewish, black, gay, etc. American college campuses are not moral sewers because they are more anti-Israel than other parts of … Continue reading

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The end of Baylor’s Art Briles

ESPN: “Art Briles has talked about his “nonjudgmental” program that wanted “mavericks” and prided itself on giving second chances. That attitude, mixed with indifference toward victims, did him in.” How do you think he turned around Baylor’s football program? By … Continue reading

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Hard Truths About Race on Campus

By JONATHAN HAIDT and LEE JUSSIM: …None of this means that we are doomed to discriminate by race. A 2001 study by Robert Kurzban of the University of Pennsylvania and colleagues in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences … Continue reading

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Will Larry Summers Take the High Road or the Low Road in Fighting Political Correctness?

Steve Sailer writes: As I’ve been saying for a long time, the crucial “swing vote” not in numbers but in influence are ethnocentric center-left Jews, such as Larry Summers. For example, the continued growth of political correctness, diversity, and, lately, … Continue reading

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UC Regents need a history lesson

David Myers is a UCLA professor of Jewish studies who is way on the left, but I usually find myself agreeing with most everything he publishes in the Jewish Journal, including his latest: One can only hope that the Regents, … Continue reading

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